They were, after all, under orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to get rid of lead.
Under orders from regulators, they were mostly unable to pay dividends and repurchase stock.
The soldiers' defence was that they had acted under orders, and they have appealed.
Pakistani troops on the border are under orders to retaliate as soon as they are fired upon.
And banks are strapped for capital and under orders from regulators not to take substantial new financial risks.
China's state banks are under orders to tighten up horribly lax lending habits.
The Marines are under orders to search and interview all people attempting to enter or leave Iraq through Iran.
America was fighting the Cold War with the CIA under orders to stem the Communist tide in Central America.
They are under orders from the judge not to speak about the case.
Immigration officials were polite but acting under orders "from above", Mr Xenophon said.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been under house arrest for years under orders from Myanmar's military regime.
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During the current budget year, the Census Bureau, under orders from Congress, has scattered a unit called Statistical Compendia Branch.
No doubt HR is under orders, while screening job applicants for the claims department, to seek out the most inept.
The soldiers said they were acting under orders from Major Dan Taylor, who was in charge of Camp Bread Basket.
The dam was reported to be still operational, with rebels under orders from their commanders not to interfere with the workers there.
Would it be a member of the criminal underground or covert national operative in another region of the world, acting under orders?
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Concern was growing along the region's vulnerable coast lines, where hundreds of thousands of people had been under orders to evacuate since Sunday.
The latter confirmed he was under orders to reduce the wage bill after Romanov warned he would no longer tolerate "mercenaries" at Tynecastle.
Several specialist crew members were left on board the toxic sub for about a day, because they were under orders to keep watch.
His boss was further up the queue, under orders from his wife to be swabbed and get the antibiotics - Cipro, to be exact.
But the Church lawyer who helped Archbishop Weakland prepare the case against Fr Murphy says that he was not under orders to halt the trial.
Tensions brewed, for instance, when she organized a golf-themed 21st-birthday party for a student at University of Virginia under orders from his mother in Epsom, England.
As we wrote Friday, this will be a scandal like Watergate if it turns out that the IRS was acting under orders from Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett.
If a vessel attached to one of the three main flotillas believes that pirates have hostages under their control, it is under orders not to launch an attack.
The Big Three have been through this before: Between 1978 and 1982, under orders from Congress, Detroit lifted fuel standards in cars from 18 mpg to 24 mpg.
The service is so afraid of drill sergeants engaging in sexual improprieties with recruits that the sergeants essentially are under orders to stay away from mixed-gender barracks at night.
Some in Congress believe this cooperation fostered the climate of abuse, although Taguba said the soldiers should have known they were under orders to operate within the Geneva Conventions.
The men of North Korea have been under orders to mind their hairstyles since 2005, when they were berated for their messy barnets by their leader, Kim Jong Il.
One reason is that they appear to be under orders to promote Hong Kong as the place to trade renminbi and these deals inflate statistics on renminbi usage there.
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